Little Pixie Gifts - Gifts Blog

Spaghetti bolognese is pretty easy to make. However you make it, either from scratch by boiling down your own tomatoes or  using an off the shelf pasta sauce, here are four ingredients to graduate your humble spaghetti bolognese from great to special:

1. use fresh pasta. You don’t have to make it yourself, it’s readily available from the cold section of a good supermarket or deli. And don’t forget to salt the boiling water. (Salting before the water has boiled can damage your saucepan).
2. add red wine - real wine, not cooking wine. Cheap wine tastes cheap, even in cooking.
3. add Bamboleo sun-dried tomatoes. Bamboleo are the only brand we use in our gourmet gift baskets because they are the best I’ve ever tasted. Just the right blend of acidity, salt and tomatoe flavour. Dice into small pieces to add delightful flavour pockets in the pasta sauce.
4. Add garlic
5. Optional - Add diced bacon - though I prefer to dice my own from fresh rashers.
6. Of course use premium, fresh ground beef mince.

Simple, quick and easy - but the finishing touches that make a big difference! Bon apetite!

By the way if adding to an off the shelf past sauce, my presonal favourite is Leggo’s the Stir through Pasta Sauces - particularly the Sundried Tomato & Roasted Garlic and the Char-grilled vegetable.

Today we add the “Presidential Snacks” Gift Basket to our range.

It’s a very attractive basket, quite traditional in presentation and also quite inexpensive. I’m quite proud of the photography on this product as well.

Gift Basket

It can be quitedifficult to capture a wrapped gift accurately because reflections from the cello. We’ve altered our set up a bit and I’ve adjusted the lighting in our photography area so that we get a much flatter light with less reflection. It’s still not perfect, but it’s getting better.

Thank you so much Darren.  They loved it.

We will be using you again.  It was too simple and easy.

Cheryl
Corporate Customer

Thank you so much Darren. My sister loved the gift and I was thrilled
to be able to give something other than flowers in spite of being so far
away. We live in Darwin so it can be difficult to have a personal touch
to your gifts and I was very impressed by your website and what you had
to offer.

Cheers

Pam
Sunbuild Pty Ltd

Tony Ellison has posted a good sense guide to business or corporate gifts on work.com.

He suggests staying away from personal gifts such as fragrances or flowers, that may have romantic or unintended interpretations. Also nothing too big (that say bribe!).

On the recommended side he mentions food, fruit, stationery, but misses out a biggy - gift baskets. The absolute best corporate gift . It’s versatile, can be tailored for individual tastes, and can be shared with team members.

You can read Tony’s full article here.